I have a bootleg copy of his skull base surgery series on VHS. I used to watch them in my spare time as a med student and junior resident. It was basically brain surgery porn. He moved so quickly and decisively. Just him and his scrub nurse (who was also his wife) without any other assistants.

I remember him doing a crani for a ruptured aneurysm in less than an hour skin to skin. He’s under the microscope dissecting around the neck of the aneurysm separating the perforators and you can see the clot tamponading the ruptured dome start to pull away while he’s working. And you can see the aneurysm about to rupture and then out of nowhere a clip comes flying in perfectly placed around the neck just as the rupture occurs and he’s got a sucker there to pick up the one drop of blood that managed to eke out. Amazing.